Tool for changing paper fuel filter

Is that a Davco?

 

Google: Davco filter wrench

 

If this is what you have

Then this is what you want

 

Make sure it is the small one and not the big one. Yes, there are 2 sizes. I have a new tech on the floor that did that a month ago when I told him to get his own wrench after I got tired of him borrowing mine every day.

 

Just learned something new

 

There is a 5 inch one with e blue handle and a 8 inch one for the Davco 482 filter system. Oddball setup used on the 2012 Detroit DD15 and 16. The most common is the 5 inch which is what the OP is wanting.

 

I haven't messed with anything newer than 2006 not too surprising they redesigned the fuel filters since they've changed everything else

 

That's one thing I lived by when I was in a shop. If I had to borrow a tool more then once I always bought it when the took truck showed up! Nothing more annoying than a guy borrowing your tools all the time!

 

I don't mind loaning tools out for the wages don't match the job these days. A lot of new techs out there can't afford them, but there is a limit as well. If you borrow it 5 times in 1 week, then I suggest by 2 paychecks to either get it off eBay or the expensive tool truck. Filter wrenches is one of those things that all the techs should have so that I give no excuse for. However, the Detroit tools for doing overheads, that's a bit more understandable. Or that $10k Allison rebuild tool set... I don't even have that one and I have a lot of tools. Some things I don't do enough to make it worth it to buy the tools, but I know who to borrow them from and I am sure to return them cleaner than I borrowed them along with a beer purchase $20 bill left on the tool box.

Take care of the techs you work with and they will take care of you.